troutlet

plural troutlets

1. A young trout.

   As, pent in an aquarium, the troutlet / Swims round and round his tank to find an outlet,

   1906, Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic’s Word Book, page 67

   3 more examples

   The brook beneath, thro’ which the troutlet shy / Shot swiftly on, and baffled all his skill;

   1816, James Brydges Willyams, The Influence of Genius, London: J. Hatchard, Part 1, stanza 37, p. 21

   He has a nice taste in the arts that has come to him by the way of socks, spats and slips, and of these he has a large and happy collection, which he laughs at jollily in public […] but in the privacy of his chamber he sometimes spreads them out like troutlet on the river’s bank and has his quiet thrills of exultation.

   1914, J. M. Barrie, “Rosalind”, in Half Hours, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 101

   Farther along I came to a stream and, resting on its bank, counted many troutlets lying on the bottom among the stones.

   1979, Scott O’Dell, The Captive, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 121

   Synonyms: troutling